California Public Utilities Commission Storage-Based ...€¦ · Francis pump-turbine Synchronous...
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California Public Utilities Commission
Storage-Based Ancillary Service and Peaking Power Plants
March, 2012
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water
flow
Storing Energy
The Gravity Power
Module (GPM)
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water
flow
Generating
Power
The Gravity Power
Module (GPM)
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The Gravity Power
Module (GPM)
Modular pumped storage
Much lower cost/kW installed
versus conventional PSH
Low cost materials (cement,
iron ore, steel)
No exhaust stack
Flexible siting
Very little land use
Quiet
Fast permitting
Rapid construction
Excellent dynamic response
Short time to revenue
Patents Pending
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Single-Piston Design
Piston carved from native rock
250m piston in 500m shaft
500m piston in 1000m shaft
~2500 kg/m3
Reinforced concrete lining
Reinforced concrete baseplate
Smooth piston outer lining
Sliding seals
Dynamic balancing (no positioning
wheels)
seals
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Small GPM – 40 MW, 160 MWh
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Shaft Diam. 33.2 m
Shaft Depth 500 m
Power System Francis pump-turbine
Synchronous AC M/G
Operating
Pressure
375 meters of head
(3.7 MPa, 533 psi)
RT Efficiency ~80%
Storage Mass 436,000 tonnes
Water Volume 245,000 cubic meters
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Big GPM – 1000 MW, 4000 MWh
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Shaft Diam. 80 m
Shaft Depth 1000 m
Power System Francis pump-turbine
Synchronous AC M/G
Operating
Pressure
750 meters of head
(7.35 MPa, 1065 psi)
RT Efficiency 83+%
Storage Mass 5.4M tonnes
Water Volume 2.75 Million cubic meters
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1,000 Megawatt GPM (4,000
MWh)
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High Throughput Shaft Excavation
Large diameter allows open-pit
mining technology:
High throughput excavation equipment
Drill & Blast
Large crew size
Potential for rapid excavation
Potential for very low cost
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Blasthole Drilling
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Blasthole Drilling
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Blasthole Drilling
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Blasthole Loading
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Pre-splitting to Limit Blast
Damage
Pre-split
Not Pre-split
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Controlled Blast
Minimal projectile danger
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Open Pit Muck Removal
100 tonnes per scoop
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10,000 Tonnes per Hour…
…but not shaft compatible.
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Deep Shaft Muck Removal
Rock Crusher
Loader
• Medium size equipment
Can be hoisted
• Conveyors instead of trucks
Similar capacity & cost
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Loaders
• Inexpensive
• High capacity
• All sizes
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Rock Crusher
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Smashes rock to conveyor-
compatible size
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Vertical Conveyor
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• Very high throughput
(Up to 4000 m3/hour
per conveyor)
• 500 meter vertical lift
• 1000 meter lift possible
• Low cost
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Construction Sequence
1. Prepare site
2. Excavate top half of shaft
3. Rock bolt & shotcrete shaft wall
4. Excavate annulus around piston
5. Rock bolt & shotcrete piston & annulus wall
6. Excavate & line return tunnel
7. Excavate & line return shaft
8. Incrementally mine under piston and replace
with reinforced concrete base
9. Line piston & shaft wall with reinforced
concrete
10. Cover piston with smooth liner
11. Install seals
12. Fill with water 80m x 1000m GPM
at correct scale
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Shaft Excavation
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vertical
conveyor
Rock bolts
and
shotcrete
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Piston Release
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Tunnel also
cut this way
Annulus cut using
drill & blast and/or
mining machines
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Tunnel Under Piston
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Install Roof Bolts & Floor
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Rock bolts
Steel plate
Concrete
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Install Reinforcement
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Rebar
Steel
plate
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Baseplate-Floor Close-up
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Rebar
Baseplate steel
Floor steel
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Prepare for Grouting
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Casting
form
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Place Initial Support
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Concrete
fill
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Widen Tunnel
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Repeat Under Entire Piston
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Support
Floor
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Slip-form Final Liners
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Shaft
Piston
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Completed Piston
Baseplate
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Rock Piston
Steel & Concrete
Baseplate
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Hydraulic Force
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Piston Cutaway Close-up
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GPM Products Planned
Ancillary Services GPM
• 25MW capacity x 20 min.
• Cost/kw: $1,000
Intermediate Peaking Plant
• 40MW capacity x 4 hours
• Cost/kw: $1,900
Eventual Peaking
Plants
• 150-1000+MW
capacity x 4+ hours
• Cost/kw: $1000
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Business Model: Gravity Power will sell and construct
turnkey power plants
GPM Price Assumptions: Costs shown assume a 20%
contingency and 15% profit
2010 EIA Costs for PSH equal $5595/kW at 250MW of
capacity: GPMs will be much less expensive on a $/kW
basis and more flexibly sited
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Pump-Turbine
Gravity Power CFD Model
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Proven technology
Operates at fixed
pressure in GPMs and
thus its best efficiency
point most of the time
Sits at ground level
Expert PhD pump-
turbine engineer on
staff, formerly of
Hitachi
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Company Milestones
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Start-up
GPM System Design
B-Round Financing
Complete
Scale Prototype
Commercial Demo
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Early-Stage Target Markets
Priority
Germany
Middle East
China
South Africa
United States
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Team
Tom Mason, CEO
Former EVP of Calpine, Responsible for 92 power plants
David Anthony, Board of Directors
21Ventures/Quercus Trust, Portfolio of >40 cleantech companies
Jim Fiske, Founder and CTO
Serial Entrepreneur, R&D Engineer
Chris Grieco, Executive VP
Extensive experience in Renewable Energy
Dr. Jingchun Wu, Chief Scientist
PhD with experience in pump-turbine hydraulics
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